General Data and Setting

Colony

Planet

Travel time

Distance from sun (ly)

Velocity of colony ship (fraction of lightspeed)

Type of colony

Nova

Tau Ceti II

2026-2076

11.6

0.23

International

Arcadia

Beta Comae Berenices II

2030-2148

27.2

0.23

International-European

Penglai

Alpha Mensae I

2034-2147

28.4

0.25

Chinese

Sukarno

Pi 3 Orionis IV

2036-2119

25

0.3

Indonesian-Arab

New America

Beta Virginis IV

2036-2144

32.65

0.3

American

Atlantis

Zeta 1 Reticuli II

2038-2136

36.6

0.37

Libertarian Foundation

Turnbull/Mary

Tau Eridani V / 7

2039-2128

33.1

0.37

Foundation

Victoria/Traha

Lambda Serpenti III

2039-2127

34.7

0.39

Foundation

Negsoa

Mu Arae III

2040-2156

44

0.38

Greater South Africa

Ridgewell

Beta Trianguli Australis X

2041-2142

41.6

0.41

Foundation

Gaia

Lambda Auriga IV

2045-2163

48.6

0.41

Green

Jerusalem/ Dionysos

Psi 5 Auriga II

2047-2165

48.5

0.41

Christian Fundamentalist

Minsky

Pi 3Orionis IV

2049-2108

25

0.41

Communications Cultism

Colony

Age (terran years)

Tech Level

Biomedicine

Computing

Psychology

Engineering

Physics

Nova

274

High

Bionics, artificial ecosystems

Global knowledge networks, AI

Designer memes, group minds, sociotechnology, mental techniques, automated translation

Habitat engineering

Arcadia

202

High

Biotech, symbiosis, life extension, human enhancements.

Adaptive enhancements

Symbiotic machines

Penglai

203

Medium

Human adaptation

Software engineering, artificial life

Automated translation

Megaengineering, advanced materials, synergetics

Fusion technology

Pi3

242 / 231

Mixed

Self-evolving AI, advanced robotics and perversion weapons.

Autofacs, microbots, weapons

New America

206

High

Ecotech, mobile biospheres

Quantum computers

Habitat engineering, mobile buildings

Hyperdrive, exotic materials

Atlantis

214

High

Life extension, human enhancements

Knowledge networks, intelligence enhancement tech

Squids, enhancements

Mobile buildings, flexible production, simple nanotech

Higgs fields, antigravity

Turnbull

222

Low

Surveillance, games

Habitat engineering

Victoria

223 / 10,000

Medium

Selective breeding

Xenotranslation

Plexing

Trahan design science, renewable energy technology

Negsoa

194

Low

Ridgewell

208

Medium

Reproductive technologies, advanced treatments

Gaia

187

Low

Mental techniques

Dionysos

185

Medium

Drugs

Psychodesign

Nova

Arcadia

Penglai

Pi3

New America

Atlantis

Turnbull

Traha

Negsoa

Ridgewell

Gaia

Dionysos

Sol

Nova

0

38.6

26.4

19.9

43.0

30.3

27.8

45.1

46.5

44.7

47.0

50.1

11.6

Arcadia

38.6

0

48.3

44.5

17.5

59.9

53.1

23.2

55.4

52.5

56.1

49.3

27.2

Penglai

26.4

48.3

0

35.3

43.3

13.4

25.2

51.6

35.4

27.1

65.9

66.9

28.3

Pi3

19.9

44.5

35.3

0

45.9

37.3

19.4

58.7

64.0

59.2

31.1

35.4

25.0

New America

43.0

17.5

43.3

45.9

0

56.1

48.5

33.1

54.9

47.9

60.8

52.9

32.6

Atlantis

30.3

59.9

13.4

37.3

56.1

0

24.9

63.1

42.0

35.7

68.3

71.7

36.6

Turnbull

27.8

53.1

25.2

19.4

48.5

24.9

0

65.2

59.8

52.0

47.2

50.2

33.1

Traha

45.1

23.2

51.6

58.7

33.1

63.1

65.2

0

42.7

44.7

75.1

70.5

34.7

Negsoa

46.5

55.4

35.4

64.0

54.9

42.0

59.8

42.7

0

13.9

92.2

92.0

44.1

Ridgewell

44.7

52.5

27.1

59.2

47.9

35.7

52.0

44.7

13.9

0

88.0

87.0

41.8

Gaia

47.0

56.1

65.9

31.1

60.8

68.3

47.2

75.1

92.2

88.0

0

14.0

48.6

Dionysos

50.1

49.3

66.9

35.4

52.9

71.7

50.2

70.5

92.0

87.0

14.0

0

48.5

Sol

11.6

27.2

28.3

25.0

32.6

36.6

33.1

34.7

44.1

41.8

48.6

48.5

0

Planet

Initial colonists

Rate of growth (%)

Age

Current population

Nova

30,000

2

274

6,816,607

Arcadia:

30,000

2

202

1,638,158

Penglai

40,000

3

203

16,144,202

Pi3

50,000

1

242/231

493,044

New America

35,000

2

206

2,068,728

Atlantis

20,000

2

214

1,385,054

Mary

10,000

1

222

910,636

Victoria

20,000

2

223

1,655,267

Negsoa

10,000

3

194

3,093,296

Ridgewell:

6

7

208

7,762,060

Gaia

30,000

2

187

1,217,175

Dionysos

20,000

2

185

779,941

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Biochauvinism

The view that living beings are superior to artificial ones.

Bot

Robot

Corpsicle

Cryonically frozen people, semi-serious term.

Diamondoid

Things made from diamond-like substances, especially nanofactured ones.

He3

Helium 3, the fuel used in most fusion reactors. It is commonly mined in space.

Higgsram

The energy ram in front of starships that is used to inflate quantum wormholes for jumping.

Solarian

Somebody from the solar system; has connotations of alienness.

Mortalists

People who believe immortality is wrong and abstain from it.

Morphological freedom

Freedom to select one’s physical (and mental) form freely.

Meme

A self-replicating idea, thought or belief.

Mindkind

An extension of mankind to all thinking beings. Includes humans, solarians, AI, Mothers, Trahans, Filigree and Ur-Mothers (as well as any undiscovered aliens).

Mother

An alien species recently encountered. Also, the gaianist priestesses on Gaia.

Nanofacture

To make something with nanotechnology.

Perversion

A software weapon that infiltrates and takes over systems.

Posthuman

Ex-human, someone so enhanced or modified that they are no longer considered part of the human species.

SES, Self Enhancement Syndrome

A tendency towards amplification of some personality traits due to self augmentation procedures such as bionics, genetic modifications or certain software.

Singularity

The idea of a radical shift away from the current human condition, brought about by advanced technology. The solar system has undergone a Singularity.

Singularitian

Somebody advocating Singularity.

Solarian

Posthuman inhabitant of the solar system.

Steward

Somebody wanting to preserve the past and present.

Trahans

The first alien species encountered.

Ur-Mother

Alien species that uplifted the Mothers to intelligence.

Waiter

Cryonically suspended person, formal term.